Philly small businesses face a big tax headache as an exemption ends

Small-business advisers and advocates are bracing for a wave of questions as the city’s Business Income & Receipts Tax (BIRT), Philadelphia’s municipal tax that hits both sales and profits, expands to ...

Philly’s small businesses can get free tax prep services through a new program by Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration

The new service is aimed at helping the estimated 50,000 firms that this year will need to start paying Philadelphia’s ...
WHYY

Pew researchers measured Philly’s business tax burden. Here’s what they found

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philadelphia businesses are subjected to the same tax rate, but based on their ...
Technical

Philadelphia just reduced BIRT and wage taxes to the lowest they’ve been in decades. Who should care?

Philadelphians have long complained over the city’s wage tax — an almost 4% deduction from their paychecks for residents, or about 3.5% for non-residents. About a third of states allow for this kind ...
The Guardian

How Lord Birt worked around ban on broadcasting talk as Blair adviser

Newly disclosed documents show how the former BBC director general Lord Birt sought to manoeuvre around a ban on him promoting his personal views on broadcasting while he was working as the prime ...